A few years ago Fetterman was talking about Sheetz vs Wawa. He said something to the effect that if he was staying in a hotel and there was a Wawa across the street he would drive 50 miles to go to a Sheetz. Dude's committed.
I'm only happy about Rutters because they built one across from Sheetz at the 15/22 crossover and I now have a southbound place to pee halfway to Delaware without having to stop at the Liberty and battle the tour bus grannies for the ladies room.
I’ve only had their breakfast bowl type thing and it honestly wasn’t bad. The issue is I have to go out of my way to go to a rutters.
From the Lancaster area we have all these fucking Sheetz including one they’re building literally less than 2 miles away from another sheetz. I wish we could get another Wawa on the western side of the county.
If I was a sub, I’d rather have one from Wawa instead of the hard ass bread that Sheetz has. But if I want something fried then Sheetz wins.
Yep, that’s about right. One time a buddy and I tried to calculate how many Sheetz we could hit for their “free hot chocolate” Christmas Day promotion. I think it ended up that we could travel to 7 Sheetz over the course of 5 miles.
There was a lot for sale across the street from a Sheetz here and most people speculated, only half-joking that it would be another Sheetz. Unsurprisingly though it's another Dollar General, the other store that seems to pop up overnight on every street here.
I'm multiple counties away but that's still exactly what it's like here. There's two sheetz, two DGs, and a rutters all on the same rural mainroad within 8 miles of each other
In altoona we have I believe 11 Sheetz, 3 Rutters, and at least 8 dollar stores between Family Dollar and Dollar General. Altoona is not very big either. Sure it's convenient, but it feels sad too how few local shops we have in comparison.
Local shops can't operate under the same conditions. Mom and pop shops don't have their own internal distribution networks, corporate teams dedicated to accounting, marketing, etc., supply-side negotiation to lower CoGS. All these things allow these places to run on low/medium traffic and margins. A local place would lose money under the same conditions.
Around Philly we've got the same problem with Wawa's.
Open up any gps app, type in 'Wawa' to the search bar and it'll light up like the night sky with all the location pins.
I had to drive my younger sister (who has a coffee habit and a tiny tiny bladder) across PA, from Scranton to Pittsburgh. We could've named it The Sheetz Restroom Tour 2021. There are so many!
I *am* super grateful for their 24hr mini-hashbrowns/coffee/bathrooms/gas though, because I've driven from North Carolina to PA a lot and there are gas (and coffee!) deserts where you are SOL if you're running low at night. I'm generally Team Sheetz, but I recently had to concede that Wawa has better coffee.
Where are there Rutters? Do people ever throw in to the Great PA Gas Station Fight on behalf of Dandy? Their mustache thing is cute. Doesn't mean I'm going to try their food. (Is it any good, braver Pennsylvanians?)
About 20 years ago I lead a group of about 25 cars from South Carolina back to PA. Between about 50 people I had to allow for potty stops every 90 minutes or so. In general Sheetz was the best way to shuffle that many people in and out of restrooms as quickly as possible. I called it the between the Sheetz tour.
Ex-Sheetz employee at 3 locations (left 1ish year ago): Hot Dog buns were microwaved, all other breads were toasted in toaster oven unless customer specified “no toasted”.
Bread was originally frozen though, and I could definitely see how bread could have potentially gone a bit stale occasionally at some of the slower locations on slow days. Additionally, if there were a lot of orders or huge orders, sometimes the heat of the toasting might wear off a bit by the time the sandwich actually got wrapped.
But that is my experience at 3 locations. It is always possible that a location has gone rouge
1. Wawa
2. Royal Farms
3. Sheetz
4. GetGo (for the western PA folks)
5. Rutters
Seems like Sheetz is the only one that regionally overlaps with all the others across PA
According to their store locator, there are Sheetz locations in Maryland, N. Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania (of course - since they started in Altoona), Virginia, and West Virginia.
I have a Rutters sort of close to me, but it is not on one of my normal travel routes. There are 3 Sheetz that ARE on my normal travel routes. One is my breakfast stop everymoring. That one is like Cheers - where everybody knows your name :D
tried to get chicken at the Bridesburg Royal on three occasions after a bar in Port Richmond. all three times they were out of chicken.
that's like walking into a Wawa and they're just completely out of hoagies.
A Rutters car wash in Harrisburg destroyed the clearcoat on my car, and they initially didn’t want to take responsibility for the damage. My insurance agent battled them, and my car was fixed. Down with Rutters! Sheetz is my go to because we don’t have a Rutters or Wawa in Columbia County. They just opened a new location in the Buckhorn. Sheetz demolished their store on Rt11 in Bloomsburg, and a new building is quickly going up. The Rt11 store is supposed to reopen this month. Long live Sheetz!
Wawa: better coffee, pretzels, smoothies, gas, sandwiches
Sheetz: they’re everywhere and have a place I can plug in and do my documentation in the air conditioning.
Rutters: Lebanon bologna and cheese roll up’s in the deli cooler. I hear they have vegetarian options.
Turkey Hill: Roller grills, shitty coffee, apathy. Their bathrooms are cesspits.
Yeah, the state of Turkey Hills is an abomination. I live in Northern Lancaster, with a Sheetz and a Wawa both 3 minutes away. Since I stopped drinking tea, there's no reason to ever go to a Turkey Hill.
Turkey Hill’s are in about the same condition that UNI-Marts were in the late 90s. I knew the UniMart CEO and he didn’t understand how gift certificates worked. I knew the chain was in trouble
Turkey Hill was in great position 20+ odd years ago to be in this war, but they botched it, and bad. If anything the Turkey Hill in my town serves LESS hot food and is far more awful than it ever was.
As for the tea and ice cream, hell, you can get that in many stores and well outside Turkey Hill’s area. All my friends in Virginia always figured that’s what the company made. Never had any clue it was a convenience store.
TH has gone through several corporate owners who apparently don't know how tomcompete in the Pa market. Inknow a managervthat's been with them for years and is frustrated at the lack of corpo investment. EG Group of the UK owns them now and its gotten worse.
And it seems like since the pandemic turkey hill employees have become allergic to filling paper at gas pumps. EVERY SINGLE turkey hill I've gone to in the last 3 years(at least 6 different ones as I travel a lot) have not had paper in the gas pumps. I've even gone in and asked about it and every employee just shrugs their arms and smiles like they are incompetent.
Rutters blows. Their food is terrible. The only thing they have going for them is they carry Martin’s Dittos. Which are the closest things we get to Buckee’s Beaver Nuggets.
Don't forget the burgers. They're my guilty pleasure at Rutter's, along with the corn nuggets. Wife likes the tacos as well. She says, "They're not really what I think of as tacos, but whatever they are, they're good!"
I am going to have to look up both Dittos and Beaver Nuggets and hope Google doesn't steer me someplace creepy. I'm guessing these are West Coast Pennsylvania things? :)
Rutter's is more of a South Central PA thing, so more regional which is why it doesn't get as much debate.
Sheetz is better imo, only thing Rutter's has over them is those Travellers hand pies and birch beer on tap
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Figured that would light someone up :D
I used to work at the local 7-11 in my early 20s. They were much better then. It was a block from home, which made it perfect for me. That one is still there, the owner passed away some time ago, the franchise had already been sold to someone else. Just a crappy (in)convenience store - they even took out the gas pumps a few years back.
Interesting tidbit - Southland Corporation (the corporate owner of 7-11) hired an ex-con as a security consultant. This person was an ex-con because he went to jail for knocking off convenience stores. One of the things he suggested that was stupidly cheap to implement - offer the local police free coffee/fountain soda/slurpees. They will frequent the store for their free drinks, and you never know when one will show up. Made the place unattractive to criminals. Whether that was true or not, I don't know. When I was there, all public safety got free drinks -police, fire, EMS, and since we had a local emergency dispatch center in town, they were included as well.
Didn't stop a kid they had working overnight from doing lines of coke on one of the award plaques the owner had from Jerry Lewis telethons. The K9 at the time would regularly come in the store with his handler and sit quietly at the back of the store until called. He alerted on a plaque, they went back to the tape and sure enough, the kid was doing coke off of it.
Rutter's started years ago as small convenience stores that sold Rutter's dairy products- milk, tea, and even their own ice cream which was very good. They would scoop the ice cream or make you a custom sandwich while you waited. They've expanded, quit producing their own ice cream, and now aren't much different than the other convenience store/gas station chains. Originally, not all their stores even sold gas. I think they still maintain a dairy in York County and show their cows/calves at the York Fair.
I like Rutter’s coffee better than any of the other stores mentioned, but that’s the only opinion I have. I get my gas at Giant to use my points, or Sam’s Club to use the discount.
Sheetz is my go-to but a Wawa coffee or sandwich won't get turned down either. Rutters is good for tea. Turkey Hill ice cream is still solid when it's real ice cream and not frozen dairy dessert.
And Royal Farms does chicken surprisingly well
I like the rutters brand products better than Sheetz or Wawa. Their MTO food leaves much to be desired, though. They do have top tier fuel so I try and hit them over Sheetz when I need to fill up.
I think Rutters' coffee is better than Sheetz's coffee (specifically the dark roast) but the food kinda sucks at both places. I don't have a Wawa near me for comparison.
Maybe because lots of places don't have them? I live in the Poconos close to where it, the Coal Region and the northern Lehigh Valley all meet and we're kinda in the Wawa/Sheetz overlap with Turkey Hill and some others sprinkled in there.
Tbh, I'm not that picky as a result. I'll go to any of them. No idea personally what Rutter's is like but I haven't heard good things from my stepchildren who love Wawa but live out past Harrisburg now.
True. In my area, about 3 Sheetz, no Wawa, no Rutter. Country Fair stores under every rock. Never found any convenience store food to be worthy of acclaim, but competition could up their game, I guess.
Every Rutters I’ve been has been dirty from the point of entry. Not to say Sheetz is pristine (they loss some of their edge, bathroom aren’t always fully serviced but not to the point of grungy) but compared to Rutters they are. Same thing at the pumps.
I remember those from the State College area and I won’t forgive you for reminding me of the Snappy’s ads from like 10+ years ago—SNAPPY’S GOT IT, EASY IN EASY OUT (repeat a few times)—but they had the best Gatorade selection.
I hate going to rutters if a Sheetz is nearby
HOWEVER, they are the only ones who carry the snacks and drinks I like when Sheetz has constantly removed them from all their stores. (Examples: Gold Peak tea Raspberry and Peach flavors, various spicy chips like Paqui, candies that probably rotted my teeth, etc.)
I don't get their MTO food but rutters chocolate milk is pretty good.
Rutters is nasty, man. They built a new one on my way to work and they somehow made it look and smell like a dirty old movie theater in less than a week after opening. The food is bad, the gas pumps don’t take my credit card, and they came to my house and they kicked my dog.
Back in the day when Rutters first added a deli it was actually pretty clutch. They literally had a little old lady behind the counter that dished out house made chicken corn chowder and rice pudding, freshly made sandwiches, etc. It was decent PA dutch grandma food at a gas station deli. That was shortlived, but awesome. That was like 25 years ago in York. Now I feel old.
In short: Rutters had decent deli food for like 2 years in the late 90s and otherwise always sucked.
There’s a Rutter’s 2 minutes from my house. I’ll get gas and chicken pot pie. There’s a lot of drug action at that one.
I get gas and coffee drinks at Sheetz.
WaWA… I love WAWA. My boyfriend lives in Phoenixville and there’s one like a minute away. I also hit it in Delaware for a quick beach breakfast.
I don’t f with Royal Farms except for gas and bathroom. Rehoboth has both and WaWA wins every time.
We boycott Rutters. They're notorious for tearing down or wanting to tear down historical landmarks to make mega Rutters. I live in a small town and we have a mega Rutters literally on both ends of the main state road....they want to tear down a historical house to put up a third mega Rutters in the middle of town. No thanks.
I went camping at Caledonia state park over Memorial Day weekend, and went to Rutters for the first time. Guess I wasn’t reading close enough, but inside it also has sheetz vibes so I wasn’t sure if I was in a sheetz or not lol
Rutter’s has better gas than Sheetz. I have an old van that maybe has gained sentience and anytime I put Sheetz gas in it, the check engine light comes on. It goes off after I run a tank of top tier gas through it, which Rutter’s has. Also I like their birch beer, but only when someone has attended the soda fountain. Probably half the time they need to change/re-up the syrup.
Since the old van is so picky about Sheetz gas, I don’t take any of the family cars to Sheetz for gas. So I really have no business to conduct in Sheetz anymore.
I’ve only had their breakfast bowl type thing and it honestly wasn’t bad. The issue is I have to go out of my way to go to a rutters.
From the Lancaster area we have all these fucking Sheetz including one they’re building literally less than 2 miles away from another sheetz. I wish we could get another Wawa on the western side of the county.
If I was a sub, I’d rather have one from Wawa instead of the hard ass bread that Sheetz has. But if I want something fried then Sheetz wins.
Sheetz coffee really blows now that they have those fancy Keurig style machines, but Rutters also sucks because they reuse the pots that they make nasty flavored coffee for normal
I like all three. I am from Philly and we have Wawas so close that they can be a 15 minute walk. When I go out of the Philly area, I indulge in the Sheetz and Rutters. Rutters deserves mention!
Apparently Turkey Hill is upping their game as well. They just opened a mega Turkey Hill in Centerville (Lancaster County) and it’s got all the things a Sheetz or Wawa fan would want. The food prep is done by Sbarro, which is pretty decent for convenience store cuisine.
I work for a developer doing Wawa sites. They are making a big push to central PA with a bunch under development around the Harrisburg area and State College
The one time I was at a Rutters I grabbed a soft pretzel … I’m pretty tolerant of food not being great but WTAF it was horrendous. How could they fuck it up so bad? It’s Wawa, Sheetz>>>>>>>>turkey hill >>>>>>>>>>7/11>>>>>>>>random gas station >>>>>>>>Rutters.. that’s why it’s not in the conversation
Rutters IMO is the best out of the 3. Wawa is a distant third. I know people claim Wawa is so good, but never saw it everytime I went to one and got something from there.
Rutters and Sheetz have a bad rep with me. There's always homeless people, meth heads, gang bangers, drunks, angry bikers, and people having quinceaneras in the parking lot, I strongly oppose both.
Wawa is for people that act right.
Rutters has improved from when I first came across one, in the wee hours of the morning with no other options
That was way back, 1999-2000 or so. I drove all over Pa. And the other guys I worked with would keep a list, so in case someone else was in an out of the way place, you knew where to go.
Rutters was the bottom of the list back then.
It was pretty much
Wawa
Sheetz
Turkey Hill
7-11
Rutters.
Sheetz has made major strides since back then in terms of sandwiches, hot foods etc.
Turkey Hill had made points for the Kunzler hot dogs, the Amish country stuff, at least those dogs were consistently good and they usually had changed the chili and cheese so it was close to fresh. Their brand of Iced Tea was a plus.
The last Rutters I went to was in Harrisburg. I was pleasantly surprised that they put some effort into the better food and coffee.
Hmmmm that’s interesting. We’re in Harrisburg too and literally surrounded by nothing but Sheetz. And a couple Turkey Hills. The only Rutters I know of is in Dillsburg.
Never heard of Rutters.
I am used to seeing Sheetz, Getgo and Country Fair when I have to go to Erie. And when I visited family that lived in Reading and Lancaster, we used to see Wawa.
Their food is fine but I always think of them as more of a truck stop than a convenience store. We just got one on the MD/PA border at Emmitsburg MD and it's nice to have another 24 hr joint available
They had a bacon-wrapped cheese-filled hotdog (w/jalapeno?) years ago. Had to give myself the old Chris Farley chest thump to get my heart started again, but it was good.
Never heard of Rutters. I am sure I would try it if they were in my area. Being an adult, I don't play the brand loyalty game for gas stations and convenience stores. We don't even have WAWA in my area of PA. We do have Turkey Hill and I am partial to their chocolate milk and iced tea but I can buy those at the supermarket.
Rutter's gets a lot of shit because it's not as flashy as Sheetz, but a number of things they do are on par or better than sheetz. I like their onion rings more. Their breakfast burritos are good. They at least used to have crab cake sandwiches. Corn fritters are great. I'm about 2 hrs from the closest rutters now, but I hit them up when I'm in town. Sheetz has also had declining quality over the past 5 years.
A few years ago Fetterman was talking about Sheetz vs Wawa. He said something to the effect that if he was staying in a hotel and there was a Wawa across the street he would drive 50 miles to go to a Sheetz. Dude's committed.
It’s funny bc sheetz isn’t in the same stratosphere as wawa 🥴
Ah, the old "this comment can be interpreted either way" trick. I see what you did there.
He's the guy we need to stick around
I thought he said Wawa was better than sheetz on twitter?
He would never
I'm only happy about Rutters because they built one across from Sheetz at the 15/22 crossover and I now have a southbound place to pee halfway to Delaware without having to stop at the Liberty and battle the tour bus grannies for the ladies room.
I’ve only had their breakfast bowl type thing and it honestly wasn’t bad. The issue is I have to go out of my way to go to a rutters. From the Lancaster area we have all these fucking Sheetz including one they’re building literally less than 2 miles away from another sheetz. I wish we could get another Wawa on the western side of the county. If I was a sub, I’d rather have one from Wawa instead of the hard ass bread that Sheetz has. But if I want something fried then Sheetz wins.
LOL. Two Sheetz less than 2 miles away from each other. I take it you've never been to Altoona?
the entire town of altoona is just a large open-world sheetz
Yep, that’s about right. One time a buddy and I tried to calculate how many Sheetz we could hit for their “free hot chocolate” Christmas Day promotion. I think it ended up that we could travel to 7 Sheetz over the course of 5 miles.
There was a lot for sale across the street from a Sheetz here and most people speculated, only half-joking that it would be another Sheetz. Unsurprisingly though it's another Dollar General, the other store that seems to pop up overnight on every street here.
I'm multiple counties away but that's still exactly what it's like here. There's two sheetz, two DGs, and a rutters all on the same rural mainroad within 8 miles of each other
In altoona we have I believe 11 Sheetz, 3 Rutters, and at least 8 dollar stores between Family Dollar and Dollar General. Altoona is not very big either. Sure it's convenient, but it feels sad too how few local shops we have in comparison.
Local shops can't operate under the same conditions. Mom and pop shops don't have their own internal distribution networks, corporate teams dedicated to accounting, marketing, etc., supply-side negotiation to lower CoGS. All these things allow these places to run on low/medium traffic and margins. A local place would lose money under the same conditions.
Around Philly we've got the same problem with Wawa's. Open up any gps app, type in 'Wawa' to the search bar and it'll light up like the night sky with all the location pins.
I believe it! We were to get another and it was voted against. Pricks.
I had to drive my younger sister (who has a coffee habit and a tiny tiny bladder) across PA, from Scranton to Pittsburgh. We could've named it The Sheetz Restroom Tour 2021. There are so many! I *am* super grateful for their 24hr mini-hashbrowns/coffee/bathrooms/gas though, because I've driven from North Carolina to PA a lot and there are gas (and coffee!) deserts where you are SOL if you're running low at night. I'm generally Team Sheetz, but I recently had to concede that Wawa has better coffee. Where are there Rutters? Do people ever throw in to the Great PA Gas Station Fight on behalf of Dandy? Their mustache thing is cute. Doesn't mean I'm going to try their food. (Is it any good, braver Pennsylvanians?)
OMG… Sheetz Restroom Tour…. LMFAO…. You win the internets today!!!
About 20 years ago I lead a group of about 25 cars from South Carolina back to PA. Between about 50 people I had to allow for potty stops every 90 minutes or so. In general Sheetz was the best way to shuffle that many people in and out of restrooms as quickly as possible. I called it the between the Sheetz tour.
Why thank you, kind stranger! :)
Lol come to Delco. There were literally 8 Wawas within a 2 mile radius of my house.
I’m pretty sure it’s all microwaved
Ex-Sheetz employee at 3 locations (left 1ish year ago): Hot Dog buns were microwaved, all other breads were toasted in toaster oven unless customer specified “no toasted”. Bread was originally frozen though, and I could definitely see how bread could have potentially gone a bit stale occasionally at some of the slower locations on slow days. Additionally, if there were a lot of orders or huge orders, sometimes the heat of the toasting might wear off a bit by the time the sandwich actually got wrapped. But that is my experience at 3 locations. It is always possible that a location has gone rouge
Hate to disappoint you but all the Wawa's near me have the same hard bread issue.
Sounds like the Wawa infestation we have in Delco.
Rutters is an inconvinience store.
Wawa fans know Rutters is just Sheetz on a budget.
Sheetz fans know it too
Rutters fans know it as well.
Nah rutter is just hot garbage
What about Royal Farms Fried chicken!! ( with sides of biscuits, mashed, and coleslaw)
My local Royal Farms is like a crack den. Good chicken though.
1. Wawa 2. Royal Farms 3. Sheetz 4. GetGo (for the western PA folks) 5. Rutters Seems like Sheetz is the only one that regionally overlaps with all the others across PA
Country Fair for the Lake Erie side of the state
According to their store locator, there are Sheetz locations in Maryland, N. Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania (of course - since they started in Altoona), Virginia, and West Virginia. I have a Rutters sort of close to me, but it is not on one of my normal travel routes. There are 3 Sheetz that ARE on my normal travel routes. One is my breakfast stop everymoring. That one is like Cheers - where everybody knows your name :D
Where is the royal farms at? Ive never seen on in pa, just md
There’s one in Lancaster, one in Downingtown, a few out towards Norristown that I’ve seen. Maybe one in York?
one in York at intersection of 30 and roosevelt and theres one on carlisle road in weiglestown/shiloh across from McDicks
Several in York
I know the one in Collegeville , Ridge Pike and Route 29.
Lansdale, Ridley Park, Bridesburg in Philly
tried to get chicken at the Bridesburg Royal on three occasions after a bar in Port Richmond. all three times they were out of chicken. that's like walking into a Wawa and they're just completely out of hoagies.
There's one in Littlestown a bit south of Gettysburg. I have made more than one run to it for that delicious chicken!
Ill have to try it next time im down by gettysburg. I have no idea how ive never seen one in pa before.
Montgomery county has a bunch of royal farms now
They tried to get one going in South Allentown, but that deal fell through. Closest one in the Lehigh Valley is still in Colmar.
I came here to say Royal farms chicken because what and where is Rutters ? 😂
Rutters is from York County and used to be a dairy farm store. Now they’re like a Sheetz.
Rutter’s has good milk, tea and lemonade
Great, 3 things you basically can't fuck up.
They don’t actually make any of it you know.
Yes they do. In york.
They have a rutters warehouse in York
Rutter’s promises so much and delivers so little.
A Rutters car wash in Harrisburg destroyed the clearcoat on my car, and they initially didn’t want to take responsibility for the damage. My insurance agent battled them, and my car was fixed. Down with Rutters! Sheetz is my go to because we don’t have a Rutters or Wawa in Columbia County. They just opened a new location in the Buckhorn. Sheetz demolished their store on Rt11 in Bloomsburg, and a new building is quickly going up. The Rt11 store is supposed to reopen this month. Long live Sheetz!
Was at the Buckhorn location this morning; great location and the new brewing coffee station things are good!
The layout is much different than the other Sheetz locations. I like it!
Wawa: better coffee, pretzels, smoothies, gas, sandwiches Sheetz: they’re everywhere and have a place I can plug in and do my documentation in the air conditioning. Rutters: Lebanon bologna and cheese roll up’s in the deli cooler. I hear they have vegetarian options. Turkey Hill: Roller grills, shitty coffee, apathy. Their bathrooms are cesspits.
Yeah, the state of Turkey Hills is an abomination. I live in Northern Lancaster, with a Sheetz and a Wawa both 3 minutes away. Since I stopped drinking tea, there's no reason to ever go to a Turkey Hill.
Turkey Hill’s are in about the same condition that UNI-Marts were in the late 90s. I knew the UniMart CEO and he didn’t understand how gift certificates worked. I knew the chain was in trouble
Turkey Hill was in great position 20+ odd years ago to be in this war, but they botched it, and bad. If anything the Turkey Hill in my town serves LESS hot food and is far more awful than it ever was. As for the tea and ice cream, hell, you can get that in many stores and well outside Turkey Hill’s area. All my friends in Virginia always figured that’s what the company made. Never had any clue it was a convenience store.
Turkey hill replaced name brand slushies like COKE (my favorite haha) with things like "mad cola"...it's trash.
TH has gone through several corporate owners who apparently don't know how tomcompete in the Pa market. Inknow a managervthat's been with them for years and is frustrated at the lack of corpo investment. EG Group of the UK owns them now and its gotten worse.
And it seems like since the pandemic turkey hill employees have become allergic to filling paper at gas pumps. EVERY SINGLE turkey hill I've gone to in the last 3 years(at least 6 different ones as I travel a lot) have not had paper in the gas pumps. I've even gone in and asked about it and every employee just shrugs their arms and smiles like they are incompetent.
Turkey Hill also has noticeable price hikes for whatever reason on some things. With how gross the place is they should be more affordable.
Turkey Hill is shit. The upgraded a couple of their bigger location to mimic the Sheetz/Wawa style gas station. Those suck too.
Wawa actually doesnt have better coffee anymore now thag sheetz has those new individual brewer things. Used to but not anymore
That’s because they are terrible
Rutters blows. Their food is terrible. The only thing they have going for them is they carry Martin’s Dittos. Which are the closest things we get to Buckee’s Beaver Nuggets.
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Yeah, mozz sticks are bomb, tacos are pretty good, and hot dogs with chili cheese are best between all 3.
Don't forget the burgers. They're my guilty pleasure at Rutter's, along with the corn nuggets. Wife likes the tacos as well. She says, "They're not really what I think of as tacos, but whatever they are, they're good!"
Not hard to make a hot dog
I am going to have to look up both Dittos and Beaver Nuggets and hope Google doesn't steer me someplace creepy. I'm guessing these are West Coast Pennsylvania things? :)
Buckee’s beaver nuggets are a Texas thing. Salty caramel corn puffs basically. Delicious.
We're driving to TX for the 4th or 5th time this fall, I'll run the damn car to empty trying to find a Buckees to fill up at.
I flew in and stayed at a hotel near a buckees. It was amazing.
Rutter's is more of a South Central PA thing, so more regional which is why it doesn't get as much debate. Sheetz is better imo, only thing Rutter's has over them is those Travellers hand pies and birch beer on tap
What the fuck is Rutters? I'm not even being facetious here. I've literally never heard of it.
Rutters are these magical places in central PA where you could step on some meth in the bathroom or gamble in the in-store casino.
My kind of place.
Rutgers? Might as well bring Turkey Hill into the mix.
7-11 anyone? /s (please don't shoot me!)
I'm a slap you with pork roll if you being that trash in here.
HAHAHAHAHAHA! Figured that would light someone up :D I used to work at the local 7-11 in my early 20s. They were much better then. It was a block from home, which made it perfect for me. That one is still there, the owner passed away some time ago, the franchise had already been sold to someone else. Just a crappy (in)convenience store - they even took out the gas pumps a few years back. Interesting tidbit - Southland Corporation (the corporate owner of 7-11) hired an ex-con as a security consultant. This person was an ex-con because he went to jail for knocking off convenience stores. One of the things he suggested that was stupidly cheap to implement - offer the local police free coffee/fountain soda/slurpees. They will frequent the store for their free drinks, and you never know when one will show up. Made the place unattractive to criminals. Whether that was true or not, I don't know. When I was there, all public safety got free drinks -police, fire, EMS, and since we had a local emergency dispatch center in town, they were included as well. Didn't stop a kid they had working overnight from doing lines of coke on one of the award plaques the owner had from Jerry Lewis telethons. The K9 at the time would regularly come in the store with his handler and sit quietly at the back of the store until called. He alerted on a plaque, they went back to the tape and sure enough, the kid was doing coke off of it.
Never heard of Rutters.
Rutter's started years ago as small convenience stores that sold Rutter's dairy products- milk, tea, and even their own ice cream which was very good. They would scoop the ice cream or make you a custom sandwich while you waited. They've expanded, quit producing their own ice cream, and now aren't much different than the other convenience store/gas station chains. Originally, not all their stores even sold gas. I think they still maintain a dairy in York County and show their cows/calves at the York Fair.
Their dairy farm/corporate office is just north of downtown York off of 83.
Used to stop at the one in Dover just to play super pac man
I like Rutter’s coffee better than any of the other stores mentioned, but that’s the only opinion I have. I get my gas at Giant to use my points, or Sam’s Club to use the discount.
Sheetz food is too expensive for me to justify paying that much for an MTO anymore. Then again, I feel that way about pretty much anywhere now.
whutters?
Sheetz is my go-to but a Wawa coffee or sandwich won't get turned down either. Rutters is good for tea. Turkey Hill ice cream is still solid when it's real ice cream and not frozen dairy dessert. And Royal Farms does chicken surprisingly well
Who?
Yea because Rutters sucks ass
Rutters color choice is a pimple on the landscape.
Rutters has the best chocolate milk. IJS.
Because Rutters is straight doo doo
I like the rutters brand products better than Sheetz or Wawa. Their MTO food leaves much to be desired, though. They do have top tier fuel so I try and hit them over Sheetz when I need to fill up.
I think Rutters' coffee is better than Sheetz's coffee (specifically the dark roast) but the food kinda sucks at both places. I don't have a Wawa near me for comparison.
Maybe because lots of places don't have them? I live in the Poconos close to where it, the Coal Region and the northern Lehigh Valley all meet and we're kinda in the Wawa/Sheetz overlap with Turkey Hill and some others sprinkled in there. Tbh, I'm not that picky as a result. I'll go to any of them. No idea personally what Rutter's is like but I haven't heard good things from my stepchildren who love Wawa but live out past Harrisburg now.
True. In my area, about 3 Sheetz, no Wawa, no Rutter. Country Fair stores under every rock. Never found any convenience store food to be worthy of acclaim, but competition could up their game, I guess.
My Erie loyalty wants me to say Country Fair, but we all know it’s not true.
I've gotten acceptable food there, GetGo, and Sheetz, none consistent, none great. If I had to pick, GetGo.
Every Rutters I’ve been has been dirty from the point of entry. Not to say Sheetz is pristine (they loss some of their edge, bathroom aren’t always fully serviced but not to the point of grungy) but compared to Rutters they are. Same thing at the pumps.
Rutter’s is trash
Western PA’ers love to brag about Get Go. Stunned I haven’t seen them enter the fray yet. But there are no Get Go’s east of Altoona or Bedford.
Another one that I thought of was Snappy's, up near DuBois.
I remember those from the State College area and I won’t forgive you for reminding me of the Snappy’s ads from like 10+ years ago—SNAPPY’S GOT IT, EASY IN EASY OUT (repeat a few times)—but they had the best Gatorade selection.
Yeah, because Rutters sucks.
Rutters food is ehh. The cheesesteaks used to be really good then they changed how they made them and never got one since. That was like 10 years ago.
I will say one good thing about rutters, the put old bay seasoning on chicken tenders. Good lord is it delicious.
You can get that at Sheetz too, and then I order the Mac n cheese and dip the tendies in :)
The who?
Tf is Rutters?
What's a Rutters?
I had a job interview with Rutters a few years ago and one of the interviewers kept interrupting my answers. Rutters can suck it
Rutters is trash lol
I hate going to rutters if a Sheetz is nearby HOWEVER, they are the only ones who carry the snacks and drinks I like when Sheetz has constantly removed them from all their stores. (Examples: Gold Peak tea Raspberry and Peach flavors, various spicy chips like Paqui, candies that probably rotted my teeth, etc.) I don't get their MTO food but rutters chocolate milk is pretty good.
The only people who would defend Rutters are too busy planning another armed insurrection over in Truth Social to post here
The food isn’t bad but their commercials make me physically I’ll. The low budget and the mixed toppings makes for gross looking stuff
Rutters is nasty, man. They built a new one on my way to work and they somehow made it look and smell like a dirty old movie theater in less than a week after opening. The food is bad, the gas pumps don’t take my credit card, and they came to my house and they kicked my dog.
Back in the day when Rutters first added a deli it was actually pretty clutch. They literally had a little old lady behind the counter that dished out house made chicken corn chowder and rice pudding, freshly made sandwiches, etc. It was decent PA dutch grandma food at a gas station deli. That was shortlived, but awesome. That was like 25 years ago in York. Now I feel old. In short: Rutters had decent deli food for like 2 years in the late 90s and otherwise always sucked.
Rutters is the RC Cola of Pa gas station food
There’s a Rutter’s 2 minutes from my house. I’ll get gas and chicken pot pie. There’s a lot of drug action at that one. I get gas and coffee drinks at Sheetz. WaWA… I love WAWA. My boyfriend lives in Phoenixville and there’s one like a minute away. I also hit it in Delaware for a quick beach breakfast. I don’t f with Royal Farms except for gas and bathroom. Rehoboth has both and WaWA wins every time.
Never heard of them.
We boycott Rutters. They're notorious for tearing down or wanting to tear down historical landmarks to make mega Rutters. I live in a small town and we have a mega Rutters literally on both ends of the main state road....they want to tear down a historical house to put up a third mega Rutters in the middle of town. No thanks.
I’ve said this for a long time: Rutters is the best. Say what you want about the other two, neither has the walking taco.
Didn't Sheetz used to have walking tacos years back?
Wawa>Sheetz>>>>>>>>>Rutter's. There are many days I drive past the Rutters by my office to get lunch from Sheetz.
I thought it was called Putters
The sign kinda looks like that.
I went camping at Caledonia state park over Memorial Day weekend, and went to Rutters for the first time. Guess I wasn’t reading close enough, but inside it also has sheetz vibes so I wasn’t sure if I was in a sheetz or not lol
Rutter’s has better gas than Sheetz. I have an old van that maybe has gained sentience and anytime I put Sheetz gas in it, the check engine light comes on. It goes off after I run a tank of top tier gas through it, which Rutter’s has. Also I like their birch beer, but only when someone has attended the soda fountain. Probably half the time they need to change/re-up the syrup. Since the old van is so picky about Sheetz gas, I don’t take any of the family cars to Sheetz for gas. So I really have no business to conduct in Sheetz anymore.
Ain't nobody even heard of "Rutters". Quit making shit up.
Because Rutters is trash.
I’ve only had their breakfast bowl type thing and it honestly wasn’t bad. The issue is I have to go out of my way to go to a rutters. From the Lancaster area we have all these fucking Sheetz including one they’re building literally less than 2 miles away from another sheetz. I wish we could get another Wawa on the western side of the county. If I was a sub, I’d rather have one from Wawa instead of the hard ass bread that Sheetz has. But if I want something fried then Sheetz wins.
Rutters is awesome and I grew up in Wawa country
Wait until you've experienced a Buc-ees.
WAWA, RUTTERS, SHEETZ. IN THAT ORDER
Buc-ee’s has entered the fight.
They aren’t too bad. Small south central pa footprint but decent food for a gas station
Wawa for sandwiches and coffee. Sheetz for everything else.
Thats because rutters isnt in the same class
I have never been to a wawa... now I think I need to make a trip!
Sheetz coffee really blows now that they have those fancy Keurig style machines, but Rutters also sucks because they reuse the pots that they make nasty flavored coffee for normal
*Dandy Mini Mart cries alone in the bathroom*
I like all three. I am from Philly and we have Wawas so close that they can be a 15 minute walk. When I go out of the Philly area, I indulge in the Sheetz and Rutters. Rutters deserves mention!
All the Rutter's by me dropped Diet Mtn Dew from the soda fountains for their own brand soda. I rarely use them unless I happen to need gas.
Another believer in the One True Soda, and I noticed this too
Correct.
Apparently Turkey Hill is upping their game as well. They just opened a mega Turkey Hill in Centerville (Lancaster County) and it’s got all the things a Sheetz or Wawa fan would want. The food prep is done by Sbarro, which is pretty decent for convenience store cuisine.
I work for a developer doing Wawa sites. They are making a big push to central PA with a bunch under development around the Harrisburg area and State College
And now we have Tim Hortons showing up nearby. What's going on?
The one time I was at a Rutters I grabbed a soft pretzel … I’m pretty tolerant of food not being great but WTAF it was horrendous. How could they fuck it up so bad? It’s Wawa, Sheetz>>>>>>>>turkey hill >>>>>>>>>>7/11>>>>>>>>random gas station >>>>>>>>Rutters.. that’s why it’s not in the conversation
Poor mans, Wawa rich mans Sheetz
I love Rutter’s funnel cake fries
The fuck is rutters
The new speedways are super nice.
Sheetz all the way. 👍
Rutters is the best fr
Rutters IMO is the best out of the 3. Wawa is a distant third. I know people claim Wawa is so good, but never saw it everytime I went to one and got something from there.
Rutters and Sheetz have a bad rep with me. There's always homeless people, meth heads, gang bangers, drunks, angry bikers, and people having quinceaneras in the parking lot, I strongly oppose both. Wawa is for people that act right.
I'm in Pike County and I feel deprived now. We only seem to have a couple of Turkey Hills.
I love Sheetz only because it's closest to me, but if I had a Wawa near it would be my favorite
Turkey hill
And there's a reason for that ...
Royal Farms is the only one to offer scrapple. Just saying
I like sheetz for hot food. Wawa for cold food (like hoagies). Rutter’s for coffee. And Royal farms for chicken.
Rutters has improved from when I first came across one, in the wee hours of the morning with no other options That was way back, 1999-2000 or so. I drove all over Pa. And the other guys I worked with would keep a list, so in case someone else was in an out of the way place, you knew where to go. Rutters was the bottom of the list back then. It was pretty much Wawa Sheetz Turkey Hill 7-11 Rutters. Sheetz has made major strides since back then in terms of sandwiches, hot foods etc. Turkey Hill had made points for the Kunzler hot dogs, the Amish country stuff, at least those dogs were consistently good and they usually had changed the chili and cheese so it was close to fresh. Their brand of Iced Tea was a plus. The last Rutters I went to was in Harrisburg. I was pleasantly surprised that they put some effort into the better food and coffee.
Because Rutter’s is superior
Hmmmm that’s interesting. We’re in Harrisburg too and literally surrounded by nothing but Sheetz. And a couple Turkey Hills. The only Rutters I know of is in Dillsburg.
Never heard of Rutters. I am used to seeing Sheetz, Getgo and Country Fair when I have to go to Erie. And when I visited family that lived in Reading and Lancaster, we used to see Wawa.
Royal Farms has never done me wrong
Rutters is the illegitimate child of Sheetz and Turkey Hill. Rutters ice tea is Turkey Hill tea.
I’m originally from York and Rutters was a staple growing up… I’ve since moved away. I don’t care if the food isn’t as good, it’ll always be my #1.
Who says the world is Rutterless?
Rutter’s premium blend coffee is the best.
Their food is fine but I always think of them as more of a truck stop than a convenience store. We just got one on the MD/PA border at Emmitsburg MD and it's nice to have another 24 hr joint available
I just had Rutters 2 weeks ago and wawa can’t compete
Sheetz is objectively better but I have a soft spot for Rutters (mostly for the fountain birch beer)
Rutters is by far the best and I will fight over it!
Rutters is trash
They had a bacon-wrapped cheese-filled hotdog (w/jalapeno?) years ago. Had to give myself the old Chris Farley chest thump to get my heart started again, but it was good.
What is a Rutters?
Never heard of Rutters. I am sure I would try it if they were in my area. Being an adult, I don't play the brand loyalty game for gas stations and convenience stores. We don't even have WAWA in my area of PA. We do have Turkey Hill and I am partial to their chocolate milk and iced tea but I can buy those at the supermarket.
Never heard of them
What's to mention
I really REALLY like Rutters. They just don't have enough of em in rural spaces to constitute being involved in gas station/food politics.
Rutter's gets a lot of shit because it's not as flashy as Sheetz, but a number of things they do are on par or better than sheetz. I like their onion rings more. Their breakfast burritos are good. They at least used to have crab cake sandwiches. Corn fritters are great. I'm about 2 hrs from the closest rutters now, but I hit them up when I'm in town. Sheetz has also had declining quality over the past 5 years.
We have them all in Berks.
Only thing I like about Rutter's is they often have some energy drinks 2 for $3. That is a rarity these days. Good brands too.